Comments on Profile Post by haastregt

Maybe AliExpress or Alibaba?

What do you need them for, actually, if I may ask? :P

o.o that's a lot of balloons lol, I am also curious as to what you need them for.

Um... 15 thousand balloons?

hehe, for the senior year pranks or however it is called in english, I want to fill our locker room with balloons :P. It might seem quite innocent at first but those balloons will spread and everyone will be held up when trying to access their lockers. But for this to work, we need a lot of balloons :3.

Also thanks Tom, they actually are quite a bit cheaper than dutch wholesales! However the deliverers seem kinda shady somethimes and I have to rely on delivery times, so I don't know if I want to take that risk yet..

My experience with AliExpress: nowadays, most things come between 1.5 weeks and 3 weeks, but some stuff can still take upwards of 6 weeks or possibly even more. Regarding the shadyness of some sellers, I'd look in their "shops", and see if they have some good reviews on other items. :)

Well, the cheap ones are the ones in big quantity's (like, starting from 10K), but those don't just have a 'buy' button but you have to fill in a form and stuff to get in contact with them.

They are purely balloon factory's so they don't really have any other products I can take a look on.

Ah, that sounds like Alibaba, yeah I personally haven't yet bought anything from there, but according to ohter people it was okay. You could try googling on how it works, I believe I once saw a sort of tutorial for buying on Alibaba. :)

But how would you want to fill a thousand balloons? Let alone fifteen thousand. :P

That's what I wondered about as well. :P

I did some calculations. If you take 30 seconds to fill and knot a balloon (which could very well be possible with automatic balloon pumps and once you get the hang of it), you would need 100 manhours to make the balloons. So, basically, just get a group that is big enough :P (Currently got about 20 people)

*125 hours.... :P

I don't think most people would keep that up for more than 10 minutes though, honestly. :P Couldn't you lower the amount of balloons at least?
At any rate, do keep us updated. ;)

Update: found a place that can sell and ship us 12000 balloons for 346 dollars (270 euros). My school might be willing to finance (some of it?) If we submit our worked out plan and planning on how we would be getting it done. :)

Still have to go ask wheter it would be possible to spend (part of the) night at school to blow them up though.

'Blow them up', haha. :P

*inflate them* haha xP. I'll use my most recent status as an excuse for my stonecoal english :P

Rofl, make sure you get pics when you "blow up" all those balloons.... ;)